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ENTOMOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE. 
Antilope, from Caffraria, under the name of Corypticus capensis, 
Dej.; Xopherus variolosus, from Mexico; Amycteres paradoxus, 
from New Holland, allied to Curculio niirabilis, K.; Tachyopus 
(Tachygonus, Dej.) Lecontei, a curious little weevil from South 
Carolina; Purpuricenus Dalmatinus, St., from'Dalmatia; Ozodes 
Mexicanus; Dorcadion toraentosum, from Nauplia; Saperda 
Grseca; Mesophalacrus Spinolse, from New Holland, an interesting 
genus, allied to Sagra and Donacia, already previously figured in 
Griffith's Animal Kingdom, Insects, pi. 67, fig. 2, under the incor- 
I’ect name of Carpophagus Banksii; and also in the third part of 
Mr. Hope’s Coleopterist's Manual, pi. 2, fig, 6; where the name of 
Mecynodera picta is given to it; and Platyauchenia limbata, anew 
genus from Brazil, allied to Alurnus. 
These descriptions and figures constitute, in fact, the only 
valuable part of the work; for if the possessor of every second- 
rate collection of Coleoptera, like that of the author, were to 
undertake such a catalogue as this, giving names only, without 
descriptions, to hundreds of new species, already, perhaps, named 
in Dejean s Catalogue, what endless confusion in the nomenclature 
of the order ! How much better w'ould it be to undertake but a 
single family at a time, describing all the new species in it ? Mr. 
Hope has set the example, in publishing such a catalogue of portions 
of the Hemiptera, and proposes, on his return from Italy, to follow 
the same plan in another very extensive tribe. 
CONSIDERAZIONE SOPRA I COSTUMI DEGl’ IMENOTTERl DEL G. SiREX, FAB., E 
sopra il miglior posto dei Sireciti nel metodo razionale. Memoria del Marchese 
Massimiliano Spinola. Genova, 1843. 
In this memoir, the Marquis of Spinola, after stating the general 
opinion amongst naturalists, that the Siricidm in their larva-state 
are wood-feeders, and more especially mentioning the researches of 
Rosel von Rosenhoff, Jurine, Hartig, and Sells, ^ which supports 
that opinion, takes up the observation of Saint Fargeau, pub¬ 
lished in the Encyclopedie Methodique"|*, in which the parasitism 
of that group was first asserted, and mentions, in support of it, 
that he received in 1811, from the Marquis Carlo Durazzo, a 
specimen of Sirex Gigas, inscribed, “ Parasita in larva di Far- 
* Proceedings of^Entomological Society of London, May, 1838. 
t^ol. X., p. //O, M, Saint Fargeau has again insisted on 
genus, in his Hist. Nat. Ilymenopt., i. p. 5, note 3. 
his view of the habits of the 
